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There's a different snap to grid in both the piano roll and playlist but just click the magnet-picture in the top menu of the window you want to change. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a basic melody without the use of a MIDI keyboard in Fl Studio 12. Fl studio piano roll is a great tool for creating melodies, if you do not have or you don’t want to use a MIDI keyboard, then the piano roll is the next choice for you, which I use and prefer.
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In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a basic melody without the use of a MIDI keyboard in Fl Studio 12.
Fl studio piano roll is a great tool for creating melodies, if you do not have or you don’t want to use a MIDI keyboard, then the piano roll is the next choice for you, which I use and prefer.
Note that in our previous tutorial, we used the channel rack for programming our drum beats, we can only add a single note in the channel rack, and it is probably safe to say that in most cases, you will want to have more than a single tone playing in your pattern at a time, especially when using instruments.
How do we get it to play different notes? Well, one way is by editing the channel in the Piano Roll.
Let’s add our instrument or Vst we want to use, I will be using Fl Studio stock Vst which is Sytrus.
Click on the plus sign add a new instrument and let get started, to delete a Vst right-click on the instrument, and choose Delete, you’ll get a message telling you that you can’t undo this, which is okay when you added a wrong instrument.
Delete if you added a wrong instrument.
Open your Vst instrument and press F7 to quickly go to the piano roll or right-click the instrument and select piano roll.
Before we start creating melodies, we need to understand how the most important tools in the piano roll work;
Draw and paint tools – they are used for drawing notes and playing them back as if they were recorded.
Let’s me show you how the draw tool works, I’m going to add individual notes using the draw tool, which you can find by selecting and clicking on up here in the piano roll.
So to add individual notes, I just click the notes that I want to play on the keyboard displayed left in the piano roll.
The keyboard tells you where you are on the scale.
Also notice up here in the display, you can see what note you’re currently on when you move your mouse around the grid.
The piano roll is just a 4 beat pattern, subdivided into 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on.
I’m going to use a random scale in order to draw in some demo notes. First of all, click on this snap to grid button, and select step, depending on the kind of melody you are creating, you can select the different snap, for this tutorial we will be using “Step snap“.
Let’s create the melody, left click to choose the note you want to use for your basic pattern. I am using note G and A, this is how it sounds.
http://exclusivemusicplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/how-to-create-a-melody-part-1.mp3Sometimes your notes or melodies sounds unnatural, to overcome that, we need to edit the velocity, editing velocity is a great way of creating the perception of depth within a melody, it also makes the melody sounds natural.
The velocity can be edited in two ways in the piano roll, you can either double-click on the notes and then change the velocity slider or knob, or you can go down to this window, which is the event editor, and then click and drag in order to change the velocity of the particular note that you are editing.
This is how it sounds with the velocity edited:
Fl Studio Piano Roll Snap To Grid
http://exclusivemusicplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/how-to-create-a-melody-part-1-1.mp3
You can now hear the changes we made with velocity edited, it makes it sounds more human and natural.
Another way to make your melody sounds good and professional is by lengthening or shortening the note.
Right-click to delete a note.
You just learned how to create a basic note pattern, we will be covering an advance one in the next part of this tutorial.
Another way you can create a Melody in Fl Studio 12
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Displaying and Snapping to Grid
You can display equally-spaced grids from the vanishing point and snap to those grids for drawing.
You can use this feature to draw at regular intervals in a 3D space created using a perspective ruler. |
Drawing into a Grid
To draw snapped to a grid, proceed as follows.
1Show the grid
With the perspective ruler selected, click the [Grid] button on the Tool Property palette. The [Grid] displays.
For details on [Grid], see 'Grid-related Settings on the Tool Property'. |
2Adjust the position of the grid
Drag the [Grid origin] of the perspective ruler to adjust its position.
3Enable snap
Open the [View] menu to turn on (place check mark to) [Snap to Special Ruler] and [Snap to Grid].
If only [Snap to Grid] is turned on, you will not be able to snap in an area without grid. |
4Draw in the grid
When you draw on the canvas, the drawing will snap to the grid.
Grid-related Settings on the Tool Property
When perspective ruler is selected with the [Object] sub tool, using the Tool Property palette allows you to show equally-spaced grids (auxiliary lines) from the vanishing point. Grid-related settings are as follows.
(1)Grid
Displays equally-spaced (auxiliary lines) from the vanishing point. The grid displayed by each button is different.
·Grids may not display depending on where the vanishing point has been placed. ·To snap to the grid, turn on snap by selecting [Snap to Special Ruler] and [Snap to Grid] from the [View] menu. |
XY plane
YZ plane
XZ Plane
(2)Grid size
Fl Studio Key Shortcuts
Specifies the size (distance) between grid lines. The larger the size, the wider is the area where the grid displays.